Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Fans of Doctor Who will have become quite familiar with these orange Sanctuary Base 6 spacesuits from the show's revival era, which first appeared 2006's 'The Impossible Planet' and have popped up in subsequent stories where the need arose, like 'The Waters of Mars'. In this instance this spacesuit is not from 'Kill the Moon' as you'd at first suspect with the accompanying alien spider creature and other spacesuit from that season eight episode on display, but is in fact from 'Listen' and worn by Samuel Anderson as astronaut 'Orson Pink'.

Original spacesuit costumes from Doctor Who

These costumes from the beloved British sci-fi show were spied on display at theDoctor Who Experiencein Cardiff Bay, Wales on April 20, 2015.

Doctor Who Listen TV poster

Colonel Orson Pink was an astronaut in the 22nd century and suggested descendant of 'Danny Pink', a former soldier and maths teacher from the 21st century.

SB6 spacesuit worn by Samuel Anderson as Orson Pink

in Doctor Who's Listen

Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and Ellis George also wore similar orange spacesuits (without the SB6 badge) as the 'Twelfth Doctor', his Companion 'Clara Oswald' and Coal Hill schoolgirl 'Courtney Woods' in 'Kill the Moon', which featured giant spider-like aliens infesting Earth'sMoon in 2049.

I think that this other spacesuit (which seems to be missing a gadget on the left hand side) belongs to the human 'Captain Lundvik' (played by Hermione Norris), who was sent with her crew of two to blow up the moon before its gravity destroyed Earth.